Michael Palermo

Michael Palermo

Michael is the Manager of Developer Advocacy at Okta. He has been advocating developer technologies for over 25 years. Michael is a published author of technical books as well as online courses with Pluralsight. Previously, Michael evangelized "smart home" with the Amazon Alexa team, taught developers location data with HERE Technologies, and championed HTML5 while at Microsoft.

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  1. If you currently federate enterprise customers using Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) and want to allow applications to access your API without migrating to OpenID Connect (OIDC), this Cross App Access (XAA) guide is for you.

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  2. We've been discussing and reflecting on the Future of Identity over the last couple of months. It's apparent to us that Identity is rapidly growing in its complexity. The surface area that our customers need to protect is growing, like a sunrise revealing a hidden terrain in the morning twilight.…

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  3. Okta at RSA Conference 2024

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    We are excited to have a presence at RSA Conference 2024! On Tuesday, May 7th, we will speak on Identity: Your key to stop breaches. Consider why you don't want to miss this session:

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  4. In late September, in partnership with DevPost, we announced the AI and Identity - Okta Hackathon 2023, and invited developers across the globe to "build an app that integrates identity standards with a flair of AI."

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